Mysterio and Others look at SIGNS!!!

Hey folks, Harry here... I'm off to New York to see if I can get into that Screening Of STAR WARS on Thursday at the Tribeca thingamagig... If you have an extra seat, drop me a line at Harry@AintItCool.Com!!! Yeah, I've seen it once... You didn't think that was enough did ya? Well, it ain't like I'm gonna be seeing this one soon! Here's Mysterio and a whole bunch of other folks all raving about SIGNS... sissafrassafrissafrasss....

Hey Harry, "Mysterio" here. Opting out of terrorizing the ‘Spider-man’ premiere in Westwood this past Monday night, I opted to instead set my sights on crashing another party – the first public screening of the latest M. Night Shymalan film, ‘SIGNS’. I wanted to see this film before too much word got out on it and spoiled the film, and with any test screening, it doesn’t take too long for that to happen as seen from previous reports that have been flooding the ‘net just hours after the screening. But fear not, this review won’t spoil it for you if you’ve already seen the trailers, which do a good job of doing what a trailer should do – and that’s to tease you, NOT tell you. So let’s get on with it shall we?

M. Night Shyamalan knows what scares us, especially those things that go bump in the night. These are the primal fears that have plagued our psyche since childhood - the shadows we see leering around corners, the strange noises coming from upstairs, and that monster that we’re convinced that hides either in the closet or underneath our beds.

These very same childhood fears that we once had as children are again brought to the surface in the latest offering from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan in the sci-fi, dramatic thriller, ‘SIGNS’.

Mel Gibson stars as Graham Hess, a recently widowed father of two, living on a small, rural farm in Bucks, County, just forty-five miles outside Philadelphia. When we first meet Graham, we quickly learn of his grief and pain in not fully being able to accept the death of his beloved wife who just six months prior was killed in a reckless auto accident. It’s also this same pain that torments his very soul and causes him to question his beliefs so much that he resigns his holy title as Father from his local church, and is adamant that no one address his as such.

His brother, Merrill (played by Joaquin Phoenix) soon moves into the family’s farmhouse to fill the void and help Graham cope with his loss while helping raise his two young children – son Morgan, and daughter Bo.

Its Graham’s two very children who, one morning, discover a mysterious crop circle just mere yards outside their doorstep. Confused and bewildered, Graham believes it to be some bizarre prank, possibly crafted and executed by the neighbor’s son and his friends, while Merrill suspects it was done by "nerds who don’t have girlfriends, and want to be famous."

But those theories are soon abolished as abnormal and unexplainable things begin to occur around them. Their two dogs suddenly become aggressive and hostile towards them, Bo complains that the tap water is contaminated and son Morgan begins to pick up a strange frequency from a baby monitor.

Graham too, soon begins to see and hear the sounds of shadowy, obscured figures moving around in the dark and rustling amongst the corn stalks in his field. Shoeless Joe Jackson it ain’t and this is no field of dreams for Graham.

As the mystery of the crop circles are revealed, the threat soon increases, leaving Graham and his family trapped within their home all the while forcing them to protect and defend themselves from the mysterious, looming threat that surrounds their home outside.

If this review feels like I’m leaving quite a bit out, it’s because I am. There’s something about going into this movie cold - meaning the less you know about it, the better off your viewing experience will be. Not to say that the film has any big twist ending like ‘The Sixth Sense’ or ‘Unbreakable’, because thankfully it doesn’t. Shymalan instead does away with the gimmick, smartly saving himself from quickly becoming a one-trick-pony, and focuses more on the story and characters as in helping bring his script to the screen.

The cast is excellent all round. Gibson turns in another great performance as the emotionally pained Graham, and is wonderfully supported by Phoenix who helps add humor and believably to the family unit in peril. The two children, both Morgan and Bo (played by Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin) shine in their roles and are a precious find. Culkin infuses both innocence and intelligence in Morgan and shows great promise as a child actor in the same way that Haley Joel Osment did in ‘The Sixth Sense’. And Breslin as "Bo" is about as adorable as they come playing the youngest Hess family member. Not unlike Spielberg before him, Shymalan shows real strength as a director in getting the best possible performances out of his child actors.

Shymalan also knows how direct suspense and after his past two previous efforts, comes full circle in completing his "Philadelphia trilogy". He plays on your fears, and opts to show you less, which ultimately gives you more. But that doesn’t mean he cops out by not showing you anything. This is by far scarier and creepier than ‘The Sixth Sense’ and makes for a perfect date movie. Cinematographer, Tak Fujimoto makes great use of shadow and light, adding to the suspense, as does the sound design, which plays an integral part in the film as well. Not since Robert Wise’s ‘The Haunting’ has such use of sound and shadows been so effective in scaring it’s audience out of their seat, including this reviewer who’s not so easily manipulated by today’s conventional Hollywood horror/suspense-thrillers.

‘Signs’ is a well-crafted thriller that Hollywood hasn’t seen in years, delivering on all the thrills and chills it promises and more. This is one of the year’s best films, one not to be missed. Look for ‘Signs’ everywhere near you this August 2nd.

Next is the ejaculatory SOULPATCH...

Hey Harry,

I just saw M.Night's film SIGNS on Monday in Marina
Del Ray. WOW, what a movie. Better than sixth sense,
better than unbreakable. This guy keeps getting better
and better. He is a master storyteller. His talent for
creating characters, his ability to bring up small
facts in the movie and turn them into very important
moments is unsurpassed. M.Night has this uncanny
ability to create characters that you root for until
the bitter end. You feel for Graham Hess(Mel Gibson),
you want to see Merrill Hess kick ass, you can't help
but just smile when you see that adorable little girl.
You can't take one bit of information for granted, it
all means something. The trailer or the teasers can't
do this movie justice. Is this movie about aliens? Is
this movie about crop circles? You are just going to
have to wait to see what it is really about. I can say
the movie was very funny. I was so surprised how much
the audience laughed. The movie was scary, there were
many moments when people jumped out of their seats.The
introduction of the final scene kicked ass. People
just freaked out. The movie was suspenseful, thought
provoking.I wouldn't have expect anything less from my
man M.Night. After the viewing, my friends and I
talked about the film for awhile, so many layers, so
many hidden meanings. This viewing was such a treat.

As if the movie wasn't good enough, afterwards we also
got to see Michael Eisner and M.Night. They were both
outside the theater milling about. They were both
smiling from ear to ear, obviously the overwhelming
positive feedback from the audience pleased them
greatly.. When you can move a group of people to
cry,laugh and scream you have a winner and that is
what Disney has, a real winner.

Oh by the way, there was nothing wrong with M.Night
appearing in the film. Granted, this is the biggest
part he has given himself in one of his movies but I
think he did a good job. His departing line got a good
laugh and then a "holy shit" whisper from the
audience. It was a first for me to hear cheers go up
when a director appeared on screen. It made me smile.
It took nothing away from the film. It is a well
crafted movie with likeable characters and a gripping
story.

what a major ass kicking summer this is going to be.
oh the glory of it all

call me SOULPATCH

Next up is Rollo Tomasi's which has some minor spoilers...

SIGNS REVIEW

I saw the screening of Signs last night in Marina Del Ray. I am a big fan of M. Night's previous two films, especially Unbreakable, which I think is absolutely incredible. I have to say that among his three blockbusters, Signs is probably the weakest. That's not to say that it isn't an excellent thriller, but it just doesn't compare to The Sixth Sense or Unbreakable in the end. My initial reaction was that the movie was great, but the more I have thought about it, the more problems I have with the ending.

The movie opens great, just as all of Night's films do, with Mel Gibson discovering crop circles on his farm. The movie slowly reveals who put them there and why. The story focuses on Gibson and his family dealing with an invasion. It is War of the Worlds played out in one home, and it plays great. This whole story plays out beautifully- I love the way Night paces his films. I know some people will think this movie moves too slow, just like they said about Unbreakable. But I feel that the pacing in his films is absolutely perfect- he is slowly building suspense.

The movie is absolutely terrifying. I was literally on the edge of my seat throughout the last hour or so of the movie. There are a few scares throughout the film that made me, and the rest of the packed audience jump out of our seats, screaming and laughing. The movie is also very, very funny, and the comedy feels very organic to the situation. The acting is superb by all involved, especially by Jouaqui Phoenix, who was absolutely hilarious.

The problem with the film is that Mel Gibson plays a pastor who has lost his faith in god- this is maybe Mel's finest performance, but this crisis in faith leads to an ending that many people will have problems with. The ending of Signs is not a twist like Night's first two films, which is a welcome change. The problem is that the ending is kind of weak, and pretty contrived. It all becomes about Mel regaining his faith- and that is where it becomes weak. The ending is not terrible, but it also will make a lot of people dislike the movie.

Overall, this is a movie that I highly recommend. The last ten minutes were the only point where I had problems with the film, but other than that Signs is quite a ride. It's something to look forward to at the end of the summer. It is more proof that Night is an incredible young filmmaker, quickly developing into one of the great storytellers. I think in a lot of ways he is the next Spielberg.

I talked to Night after the screening, and I asked him if he would ever do an Unbreakable 2- he just shook his head and said, "I don't think so." I was disappointed- I think Unbreakable was made to have a sequel. But I guess he just wants to make original material throughout his career- I guess that is why he dropped out of writing Indy 4.

Call me Rollo Tomassi.

Next we have an excellent spoiler free review from The Guy Who Cannot Get Out Of Going To Detroit For A Wedding!!!

Ok, I've never sent a report in before, but I thought
for once I really have something to add to the
discussion. It might be wordy, so feel free to cut
out the extraneous stuff. I saw the screening last
night of Signs at the Marina Del Rey Loews (a truly
ugly theatre). I, of course, had high expectations
from this film and must say that the film exceeded
them. I once heard that if a film can truly elicit an
emotion from an audience, it will be a hit. Well this
film delivers on three levels.

1. It's funny. Very funny. Funnier than Austin
Powers 3, Scary Movie 3, and Men in Black 2 could
possibly be. With the exception of a couple really
jokey parts, the humor is based on the severity of the
situation and really helps the audience relate to
what's going on. Ok, that sounds too dry. But so
many things work so great. The daughter's inability
to finish a glass of water, Joaquin Phoenix's
tv-in-the-closet hideaway, Mel Gibson's inability to
comfortably curse, and of course when the bookstore
owner shouts, "13" at the top of his lungs when a cola
commercial comes on. These are just scratching the
surface of the great humor this movie contains.

2. It's scary. Very scary. Not loud noises and
endless false suprises startling, but truly
unsettling. Your skin crawls more from what is
implied than what is shown. The creepiest,
going-to-make-me-an-adult-spend-hours-wide-awake
moment doesn't even involve the characters in the
film. It's a video clip shown on the news in the film
that is truly disturbing. There is little gore in the
film and less true violence. But it's scary
nonetheless, and will make many a child and adult look
out their window on a dark night with trepedation and
has sworn me off baby monitors forever.

3. It's touching. Ultimately, this is a film about a
family that stays together despite all of their
problems and the fact that the end of the world may or
may not be nigh. It's about a minor league pitcher
who's dreams were crushed and has no clue what to do
with his life now. It's about a Reverend who has
disappointed a town and his own family when his wife's
death shatters his faith - not only in God but
himself. It's about a family learning to trust each
other again when after the person they rely on the
most - the mother - has disappeared. That's what this
movie is about, the rest is just a backdrop.

A few caveats.

1. Don't expect a twist. There may or may not be one.
Frankly it doesn't matter. This is not a movie about
changing the audience's point of view like in Sixth
Sense or Frailty. Go in with no expectations other
than a great, touching, funny, scary film and you will
be fine.

2. M. Night didn't just give himself a cameo in this
film. He gave himself a meaty, important role with a
monologue that most SAG-carrying thespians would kill
for (onscreen time with Gibson only sweetens the
appeal). I appreciate that he gives himself the most
unglamorous role again, but really, a character actor
would have knocked it out of the park - M. Night just
is ok. It is the largest role a non-actor director
has given himself outside of a Kevin Smith movie, and
I can't figure out why. But avoid laughing or razzing
when you see him. His line are VERY important.

3. Cherry Jones - I've never seen her before that I
can recall, but she really makes her role something
special. M. Night could have cast a well known
actress in this role of the friendly cop who is
investigating the crop circles. But in Cherry Jones
he picked the perfect person. Warm, yet very funny.
Her scene where she is trying to interrogate Mel and
Joaquin despite the fact that they have no idea what
they saw is hilarious. The best female cop since a
couple of guys named Coen wrote and directed one of
their wives to an Oscar.

4. M. Night is one of the best directors of child
talent ever. Rory Culkin - do they grow Culkins on a
farm somewhere? Time will tell if he is as good as
Keiran, but he is very strong as a young boy hungry
for information about aliens, slowed by asthma and
convinced that tinfoil will prevent the aliens from
reading his mind. And the girl, the only performance
that comes to mind for a young girl this good is Drew
Barrymore in ET. You've heard her great line in the
trailer - They are all this great. Most adult actors
cannot deadpan lines this well.

5. I was stunned to find out Mark Ruffalo dropped out
of this movie. He was the only actor I could think of
who could play Joaquin's role better than Joaquin
could. The character calls for a screw-up who make's
good. It would have been type casting after "You Can
Count on Me," but Ruffalo would have knocked this out
of the park (serious pun intended once you've seen the
movie). Joaquin is very funny in this film and the
moment where he confronts Mel Gibson near the end
about his lack of faith is one of the movie's best.
But he's simply too young to play the brother of Mel
Gibson. For the first third of the movie, most people
will think that he is Mel's son. It's jarring and
pulls you out of the movie.

6. Mel Gibson has never looked so short in a movie to
me. And I think it's great. He plays a man beaten
down by life and this little visual addition really
completes the picture.

Well thats more than enough to say about the movie
without giving it away. It aches that I have to wait
2 months before this film comes out to see it again.
I'm just glad that I brough enough friends with me so
I can talk about this film with them. Avoid the
trailers, avoid the reviews, avoid the snippets of
film on the Byron Allen show, even if it's the only
thing on. Watch this film with an open mind, and you
are sure to have one of the best film experiences this
year.

It&#39;s a relief, just when things get drecky on the screens out comes some real talent and shows the rest of the paycheck whores how to make a film that understands it&#39;s audience and takes us on a journey rather than a ride. At least I hope that&#39;s what&#39;ll happen, but I&#39;m not too worried I&#39;ve got faith in M Night.
Shame about him not showing interest in Unbreakable 2, that would be a seriously cool film, but props to him for aiming for originality.

I adore M Night and have always said he has the talent to
be the next Spielberg. All his films have that Spielber-
gian quality if you ask me.
Then I remembered this...
After Close Encounters Spielberg was developing a sci-fi
horror film at Columbia Pictures entitled NIGHT SKIES.
Rick Baker was working on creating a band of evil aliens
who would besiege a family and their farm house in a film
scripted by John Sayles and Ron Cobb. After developing
the movie&#39;s screenplay, storyboards and extremely am-
bitious alien effects, the film was dropped due to bud-
getary concerns, but more so, story concerns, as
Spielberg&#39;s original vision of the aliens changed:
Spielberg said at the time:

Yes, the Night Skies story is familiar, but themes and stories are often repeated and used multiple times by even Hollywood&#39;s best directors (Holocaust drama, WWII ARMY drama ring a bell?). M. Night is one smart cookie, so I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if he took this story from the Night Skies project and transformed it into his own piece of art. Maybe he didn&#39;t. I&#39;m a big film fan and have never heard of the aforementioned Speilberg concept. I just hope M. Night does something really different from thrillers with his next go-around.

What an ego this guy must have. Why lessen the impact of something
simply to give yourself an ego boost. It&#39;s pathetic. And christ stop kissing his ass, he&#39;ll start believing he really is a God. Sixth Sense had an obvious twist and Unbreakable had a pathetic fart of an ending. This looks more and more like X-Files 2

http://66.197.136.213/MovieReviews/SignsLee.html
And oh yeah, it&#39;s ok to be jealous of M. Night Shyamalan. He&#39;s accomplished so much more in his short carrer than you can ever achieve in your whole life. That thought does incite jealousy.

They do come better than Alakina Mann in The Others. The standard child actors&#39; performances should be judged by is of course Victoire Thivisol&#39;s as the eponymous heroine of Ponette. Who would&#39;ve believed five-year-olds could express so much angst, denial, and hope as that little girl? Must see that movie again.

Not one self-conscious moment the entire time she was on screen and she was on screen the entire time. Acting just doesn&#39;t get any better than that, child or adult. As for the M Night idolatry and Spielbergian comparisons...hold your tongue--At least for the time being. The guy has made four features so far: One was an utter familiar and two of them depended almost entirely on a "twist" ending for their popularity/success. Seriously, when talking about "Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable" does anyone ever talk about anything except for the ending? Nobody ever talks about how good the movie was, just "What a cool ending!" So, yeah, believe me, I&#39;m more than a little comforted to hear that "Signs" doesn&#39;t rely on the gimmick (I&#39;m still pretty much in the dark about the movie, though, having just scanned briefly over the reviews for general opinions on overall quality) but I did notice more than one person seems to think

Can&#39;t wait to see this and it&#39;s awful because I want to read these reviews thoroughly but I can&#39;t for fear that it&#39;ll spoil something for my viewing experience. M. Night makes us crazy like that. Anyway, all I need to know really is Mel, Jaoquin, crop circles, aliens, and M. Night!!

For mine, M. Night Shyamalan is one of the World&#39;s 10 best directors under the age of 40. His style is subtle, entrancing and unique. His method of taking his time, holding on shots of emotional import and gradually letting you in on his stories&#39; little secrets is brilliant, and so atypical for &#39;90s cinema (obsessed as &#39;90s cinema is with shooting everything from 87 different angles at 44 cuts per second to a thumping rock score while everything explodes). I must also stress, contrary to some posters&#39; opinions, that The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable were terrific films from beginning to end - the shocker endings wouldn&#39;t have packed nearly enough punch if we hadn&#39;t been thoroughly seduced by the 95 minutes that preceeded it. (Bad movies with good punchlines don&#39;t work: watch the original Ocean&#39;s Eleven as one of many examples.) Additionally, Shyamalan knows that we live in a culture of hype, where everyone is just dying to tell you what a brilliant fucking movie they have on their hands, except he both acknowledges and combats this by telling us nothing. He knows that when we slap down our hard-earned cash for 120 minutes in the dark, we want to be moved, chilled, surprised... but most of all: we want to experience. We don&#39;t want to know what happens before it unfolds. More filmmakers (and studios) should take note. MNS respects his audience - and for that, and that alone, I respect him.

Just saw the trailer for XXX... and realised that it reflected all the obsessions of 90s/00s cinema that I mentioned in my "Love the M Night-man" post. Just a complete sound &#39;n fury clusterfuck - but you know what? It&#39;ll gross $150 mil without breaking a sweat. Films like XXX make me love guys like Shyamalan even more. 7MB out.

Dude, I don&#39;t care if it is a dog&#39;s leg. And if M. Night uses the cat scare, I love him even more! Ohhh... great throwbacks to awesome 80s horror (before it became watered down cynical teeny-bopper bullshit in the 90s) if that is so, along with the "dropping of the flashlight so it goes out and tension as they slowly pick it up soon followed by a jump scare" move. Man... this dude is going to be my hero if this goes like I think it&#39;s going to. I so can&#39;t wait.

I really like Shyamalan&#39;s movies -- good old-fashioned filmic storytelling, and who cares if he likes gimmicks or twists? That&#39;s what makes it fun to sit through a suspense movie. But I sort of hope he moves away from his "broken man" hero archetype. Bruce Willis is supernaturally estranged in "The Sixth Sense" and deeply depressed over not realizing his full potential in "Unbreakable." Now Mel Gibson -- shot in the same kind of figure-diminishing light used in the two previous Shyamalan films -- is coping with loss of love and faith. I like the device, but I do want to see Night expand his toolkit of characters. --- P.S. Cherry Jones played the administrator of the Federal Theater Project in "Cradle Will Rock," and she was cool and savvy in that too.

No, no... not Gremlins, there&#39;s no theater full of aliens singing to Snow White, and I think these guys don&#39;t mind sunlight or water that much... heehee... I&#39;d say, more like a combination of Field Of Dreams (don&#39;t want to mess with contesting that one) and the first Evil Dead. Yeahhhh...

They told me not to be afraid, but I don&#39;t recall any of them actually speaking, or their mouths moving. I wasn&#39;t so much scared by their pale skin, inverted teardrop heads or giant, souless black eyes as I was by the fact that they were in marketing. A blinding light appeared at my window and the next thing I knew, I was floating toward a glowing disc that did not seem mechanical. "We&#39;ve hired a limo," the female told me (I&#39;m assuming she was female because she sounded like Jennifer Tilly in my mind). The next thing I knew, I must have been in the theater lobby because I was surrounded by more marketing executives and held in place on a concession stand by a beam of light. I tried to order a family sized popcorn and bucket of Diet Coke, but the female said they needed a sperm sample. I only agreed because I&#39;m such a big M. Night fan. I figured they&#39;d give me a copy of PLAYBOY or something, but they did it all with this tube that...well, I won&#39;t bore you with details. It was a lot to do to see a movie, but I have to say that SIGNS is worth all the scoop marks on my skin, the probings, the burns, the implants and the hybrid children.

I thought he was interested in going back to Unbreakable, possibly even after Signs. I hope he does, since I did read somewhere that he had ideas for a sequel already. And Unbreakable ruled. that movie was even better than the Sixth Sense. It&#39;s one of the few movies that gets better with every viewing. Signs looks like it&#39;s going to be awesome as well, though I doubt it&#39;ll be better than Unbreakable.

During the latter part of the new trailer just a few frames after you hear joquin say "They are in the house" you can see alien fingers under the door as the family backs away,@#$%& I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE NOWWWWW

Those dragons that are intelligent and talk make them. Christ, there is a website devoted entirely to how fake they are and they even have footage of how they are done. Why do you think you never see them any more?

Hey Marty! Gotta say like your call sign, it made me laugh. Interesting post! It reminded me of the synopsis they bandied around for "ET2", where bad aliens come to Earth and kidnap Elliot, ET has to save the day... Now wasn&#39;t "Hannibal" about bad guys coming & kidnapping Dr Lecter, Clarice has to save the day...?!?

It IS a deer leg- but it&#39;s a POSSESSED deer like the one on the cabin wall in E.D. 2!!! AIEE, the MADNESS! In all seriousness, I kid because I love. M. Night has yet to dissapoint me- even though I had my viewing of "The Sixth Sense" spoiled by an Entertainment Weekly review that gave away the whole damn thing, point blank. But, y&#39;know, not like I wouldn&#39;t have figured it out beforehand anyway. -sniff- And, hey, if you&#39;ve seen M.&#39;s DVD extras, you know the man has been a born actor from the very beginning. Look out, Tarantino! Hungry eyes, they are a-watchin&#39;! Anyway, in all honesty- can&#39;t wait. Go, M.- it&#39;s yer birthday.

1)Unbreakable. A good twist ending didn&#39;t make up for the fact that even sam jackson couldn&#39;t keep the rest of the movie from being extremely boring.
2)1998&#39;s masterpiece "Wide Awake," There is a film that is such a "cult classic" that not even you Shymalan fan boys have seen it.
3)The Sixth Sense gave us Haley Osment, which subsequently gave us Pay it Forward.
4)Wrote "Stuart Little" the Movie, he wrote that? Geeze, what an acomplishment.
5)Is such an ego-maniac that he put himself in everyone of his "films" with the exception of the aformentioned 1998 classic "Wide Awake"

OK I can see that no one wants to give it away, but I want to see aliens. Haven&#39;t seen any good aliens in a while. Episode II will be the same old. MIB 2 might have better, but again there are rethreads. How about some good scary little gray guys?
Please?

Was a pretty good movie. Yes, I am an M. Knight fan who HAS seen that movie... Yeah, it was a family film, with a Christian message, that was rather preachy but it was done well. I am not so snobby and jaded that I only like films like Memento. It did the job it was supposed to and foreshadowed his future deliberate, meticulous story-telling, twist-endings. And again, he is REALLY good at pulling the best performances out of child actors.
I agree with the poster who mentioned M. Knight&#39;s films&#39; having a big lack of re-watchability, but DANGIT!, if they don&#39;t have a huge impact on the first viewing! Always as the movie audience departs the theater after checking out one of his films, there&#39;s always a buzz of *gasp* folks actually discussing elements of the films BESIDES special effects :-)
Gotta luv that M. Knight.

M. Night&#39;s cameo in "The Sixth Sense" was that of the doctor, not the fiance. And Scorcese taking the role of the angry husband in "Taxi Driver" can be attributed to the fact that the actual actor who was supposed to play the angry husband never showed up.

Heres why: That Episode 2 screening at Tribeca is for either families who have lost loved ones because of the World Trade Center attacks or kids living below poverty. If you get an extra seat there, that means that some grieving family member or poor child will not be able to attend a movie that could at the very least put a little ray of sunshine in their lives and maybe a smile on their face. And, besides youve seen the movie already; wait like the rest of us for May 16th. So please, dont be a chump and still some poor kids seat. If you do, then you sir, are an asshole.

This is the reason I will see this film. Well, I probably would have seen it anyway (looks fantastic) but this is why I will DEFINETLY see this film. If he is funny then this may be his best stuff. Even in his most dramatic roles he has a slight comical slant. What an actor! He&#39;s also extremly good looking to say the least. And seeing we&#39;re talking about child actors, watch Parenthood and see how good he was as a kid as well. Why isn&#39;t his name before the credits? He is an oscar nominee and played the villain in one of the biggest movies of modern times but they don&#39;t put his name before the credits. My favorite actor!!!

Hey..I totally agree with Euphonium, "wacky" Phoenix ( as someone on this board so stupidly put it) is amazing in EVERYTHING he&#39;s ever been in. I like Night&#39;s work and I&#39;m looking forward to seeing yet another superb performance by the beautiful, brilliant Mr. Phoenix.

"is she a vergin?" that movie kicked ass. saw a new trailer for signs before frailty. even the trailer made me jump when mel is in the kitchen and the camera follows his hand as he checks under the pantry door with a knife.

Does anyone else remember at the end of unbreakable when sammy glass is sitting at his desk and there are all those newspaper clippings on the wall of sole survivors from stuff like mud slides in mexico and airplane crashes? they could be more superheros (cannot suffocate, able to withstand fire) or at the least openings for other stories. rock on mortimer knight shamalamadingdong!!!